alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain) (10/01/88)
Here at the university, we have a network of MicroVAX 2000's running X10.4, and a couple of standalone X11 machines. Heres the deal. I brought up a new workstation as a 10.4 server, and then added X11 support, through a mess of nfs mounted directories and symlinks, so in theory, the machine could be either X10 or X11 server by changing the ttys file, the kernal a few other things. Everything seems to work, except that under X11, the cursor is a boring white rectangle (not square), and xsetroot has no effect. I've checked everythingh that I can think of (/etc/ttys. /dev/mouse, /dev/smscreen, etc), and it looks like the standalone X11 machine next-door, and I would suspect hardware except that the cursor works fine under X10. Any ideas? -- :alex. Systems Programmer nerwin!alex@umbc3.umd.edu UMBC alex@umbc3.umd.edu
werner@nikhefk.UUCP (Werner Vogels) (10/03/88)
In article <1213@umbc3.UMD.EDU> alex@umbc3.UMD.EDU (Alex S. Crain) writes: > > Here at the university, we have a network of MicroVAX 2000's running >X10.4, and a couple of standalone X11 machines. ..... > Everything seems to work, except that under X11, the cursor is a >boring white rectangle (not square), and xsetroot has no effect. I've checked .... > Any ideas? I posted a similar problem a few weeks ago but I didn't get any real sensible help except for the question if installed my fonts correctly. So I started a quest on my own through the qvss driver. I did find a solution to my problems, I don't kown if it is correct but it worked for a fourthnight by now without any significant problems. Add at the end of the qvDisplayCursor routine in server/ddx/dec/qvss/qvss_io.c before the return TRUE a line : ioctl(fdQVSS, QIOWCURSOR, qvInfo->cursorbits); and warch it suddenly change your cursor in an beautifull X. werner (werner@nikhefk).